December 02, 2017

It's being reported that Apple's CEO along with other Silicon Valley CEO's will be attending the 4th World Internet Conference (2017) and "Light of the Internet" Expo that will showcase the latest internet technologies and applications from around the world, highlighting artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and other areas.

Attracting 411 renowned internet enterprises from home and abroad, there will also be activities running alongside the expo, including 118 launches for new technologies and products and 10 meetings working on internet project cooperation.

The Conference that Tim Cook will be attending is titled "Developing Digital Economy for Openness and Shared Benefits-Building a Cyberspace Community of a Common Future." The full agenda and parts of the conference could be found here.

Quartz reported on the event with a less than positive take noting that "Despite its global implications, the name “World Internet Conference” is a bit of a misnomer—the event will showcase the internet not as the world sees it, but as China and its ideological peers see it. And while representatives from China’s government will likely hail the “openness” of the country’s internet, the past year made it all too clear that China’s cyberspace is more restricted than ever." For more on this, read the Quartz article here titled "Starting this weekend, China celebrates its “open” internet after a year of unprecedented censorship."

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